On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 03:52:28 +0000 Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Recent review has revealed several bugs in obscure protocol > implementations that can be exploited by local users for denial of > service or privilege escalation. > > The econet protocol (PF_ECONET) is unmaintained. There appear to be > no published applications for it, and it has never progressed beyond > 'experimental' status. > > This protocol generally should not be enabled by distributions, since > the cost of a security flaw affecting all installed systems presumably > outweighs the benefit to the few (if any) legitimate users. > > Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> This I agree with. Probably the Arcnet devices as well. Most distro's don't enable it anyway. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
